http://www.david-reid.com/cynic Just a few ramblings on life Sun, 02 May 2010 13:37:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think you'd be hard pressed to find voters in the UK who disagree that political reform is needed. Finding voters who had clear ideas and workable suggestions on how to do it would be harder, but that's where sites such as 38 Degrees come in - or at least ... http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/?p=689 A pleasant day in March saw 3 of us heading to the Alpine Bikes Winter DH Series round 3 at Innerleithen (a downhill bike race) for an afternoons photography. Neil is a mountain biker and has covered such events before, but for Dave & I it was a first. The ... http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/?p=676 By default fuppes advertises it as 'FUPPES xxx' which isn't especially friendly. Adding this to the config for the default device will allow you to give a more meaningful and friendly name. <description_values> <friendly_name>Friendly Server Name Here</friendly_name> ... http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/?p=671 The BBS2 has a large store of music, pictures and will eventually also have some video on it. There are plenty of ways of accessing it via a computer, but I wanted a solution that would allow other devices to also access it. Given the huge amount of media coverage ... http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/?p=669 It seems like a very long time ago now that Tess joined our family. The small bundle of fur has grown up into a great young lady and while we'd like to take all the credit, we've had help. Like every puppy owner we wanted to make sure we got started ... http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/?p=660 After a lot of discussion, looking around and general wondering what to do, about 10 days ago I ordered a BBS2 from Tranquil PC. I chose to upgrade the memory to 2G and went for the 3+1 RAID option as it gave me the eSATA port on the rear. The BBS2 ... http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/?p=656 Another long weekend away, this time with some of Rosies family. We drove 3 hours south and west, arriving just outside Stanraer in a small village called Glenluce. The castle is around 2 minutes drive from the village and sits in a field with a couple of other houses. It's ... http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/?p=654 This weekend we were both off, so we tried to book a sort getaway. Finding somewhere that appealled and ticked all of our boxes was no easy task and we left it a little late (again) - what's new eh? In the end we decided not to go too far ... http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/?p=652 Over the last week I've been working on another small django site. It's mainly the usual stuff but one aspect that proved trickier than I expected was using the django maintained authentication system to control access to another service. The other service is run via an apache2 installation and so ... http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/?p=650 All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke The US PTO really does make some dramatically poor decisions. Of course, the patents have to be filed in the first place, so some of the blame must lie with the companies or individuals that make ... http://www.david-reid.com/cynic/?p=648